9/14/2026 at 11:12 PM
Tracked down the real cause of the 504 timeouts that have been hitting the site during streams. The live Submariner data feed -- the one powering the stream overlays and the live section of the Submariner page -- was rebuilding itself from scratch for every single viewer, several times a minute, even though everyone receives exactly the same information. It now builds once and is shared, so the site's workload no longer grows with the size of the audience: 200 viewers cost the same as 5. Also stopped the Kong Climb overlay from quietly polling around the clock when no game is running, and made the Twitch bot back off gracefully when the site is struggling instead of retrying hard enough to keep it down.
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